Doing the right thing
As a business, Lyreco wants to reduce its impact on the environment. We also want to play a positive role in reversing many of the challenges the planet faces, from climate change to natural resource depletion.
We know that our customers feel the same way. They want to benefit from a working environment that brings a tangible, positive contribution to people and to the planet.
As such, sustainability is a core part of our business strategy as well as our CSR strategy. We are as focused on sourcing green and ethically sourced products as we are on ensuring they are high-quality, competitively priced and can be delivered to homes or offices whenever you need them.
Our ongoing commitment
Our ongoing sustainability work includes:
- Providing sustainable workplace solutions
- Ensuring ethics and compliance in all the countries where our suppliers operate
- Minimising packaging
- Developing environmentally-friendly processes from ordering to delivery to product end-of-life
- Planet, People at Work, and Community by Lyreco labels.
WHAT WE’RE DOING
How we’re doing
It’s easy to talk a good talk, but we want to show the real-world results of Lyreco initiatives.
of UK and Ireland Lyreco sites have achieved Zero Waste to Landfill targets.
of employees are women
of our Lyreco Senior Management Team are women
our of electricity is supplied from renewable sources or certified renewable electricity suppliers.
reduction in fleet CO2 emissions between 2019 and 2025.
Waste Minimisation
- All Lyreco UK and Ireland sites have achieved Zero Waste to Landfill targets.
- Our Cardboard packaging is made from a mix of recycled and virgin materials sourced sustainably, helping us to lower our carbon footprint whilst producing packaging durable enough to transport products without damage
- We minimise packing material by cutting packaging to size, and we’re working with suppliers to reduce unnecessary packaging, and ensuring all packaging is as sustainable as possible.
- We’re working to expand our range of recycle & re-use services for products and packaging.
- 60% of waste that we generated internally was reused in 2025.
- Where possible, we look to donate any internal products to charity.
Inclusion
- 33% of employees are women.
- 33% of our Lyreco Senior Management Team are women.
- 11% of employees are from ethnic minority groups.
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Lyreco were awarded the BOSS Diversity & Inclusion Award 2025.
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Corporate Partners of Hidden Disability Sunflower Scheme.
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Achieved Level 3 in Disability Confident: Leader.
Sustainable Selection by Lyreco
- We have over 12,500 products that meet our Sustainable Selection by Lyreco criteria, either through their packaging, product manufacturing, use of product or sustainable accreditation.
- Our sales from Sustainable Selections increased from 23% in 2022 to 71% in 2025.
- When shopping online, we’ve made it even easier to find green alternatives. Select the “Go-Green” button to convert your order to eco-friendly alternatives in an instant!
Reducing our global impact
- In 2026, we upgraded our onsite solar power system to a 3.83 MW system which is a 38% improvement in performance.
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Our initiatives and improvements on heating efficiencies have reduced our gas usage by 56% between 2019 and 2025.
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Operation of 147 electric vans.
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31% reduction in fleet emissions between 2019 and 2025.
Sustainable communities
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Donated over £200k since 2018 to Young Enterprise, supporting over 45 schools.
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Donated over £145k in funds a products to our charity partners in 2025.
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Generated over £7million of Social Value in upskilling employees through Learning and Development programmes.
*All figures correct at 8th August 2026.
